English Final Study Guide
Myth: story explaining the actions of gods or heroes
Tone: author’s attitude towards a subject
Mood: The way the reader/audience rechieves the message of a story
Metaphor: comparision using two unalike objects
Essay: short non-fiction writing that explains something
Folktale: stories and other works that arrive out of oral tradition
Genre: type or kind of literature
Narrative: writing that tells a story
Point of view: perspective in which the story is told
Protangist: hero of the story
Setting: time and place
Style: the way a writer typically writes
Theme: the message of the work
Dialogue: Conversation between 2 or more people
Motivation: reason a character behaves in a certain matter
Denoument: anything, any events that occur after the resolution
Resolution: the way the story works out
Aphorism: short witty saying to teach a moral or lesson
Slant rhyme: rhyme with similar words but not identical sounds
Personification: attribute human qualities to someting not human
History: record of occurences of a certain place or people
Archetype: theme or pattern that is similar around the world
Symbol: item with meaning but stands for something else
Conflict: struggle between opposing forces
Dialect: language to a specific region
Imagery: descriptive or detailed language
Flashback: stop current action to go back to tell a piece of information
Foreshadowing: hints or clues as to what may happen
Irony: the difference or contrast between what is reality and expectation
Lyric: a poem that expresses feelings
Quatrain: group of 4 verses, lines, in poetry
Rhyme scheme: regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Slant rhyme: words look alike but don’t fully rhyme, forced rhyme
Stanza: section of verses in a poem
Motivation: the reason why a character does something
Persuasion: any writing written to change the readers opinion
Stream of concissouness: writing that imiates that natural flow of thought
Resemble ATBs
“Arthur” Boo Radley: a neighbor of the Finches’, only comes out at night, recluse, source of entertainment for the town’s gossip, saves the Finch childeren from Bob Ewell
Atticus: Scout and Jem’s dad, Lawyer, defends Tom Robinson, wise
Aunt Alexandra: Jem and Scout’s aunt, thinks every family has a streak, thinks that the Finches are a superior family
Burris Ewell: Only goes to the first day of school as a family tradition
Calpurnia: Finch family cook, brings the children to church, strict, unsentimental, used to live on the Finches cotton plant
Cecil Jacobs: scared the Finch children on the way to the Halloween play
Charles Baker Harris: Dill’s actual name, friends with the Finch kids, only goes to Maycomb in the summer
Dolphus Raymond: Has mixed children, sits on the “colored” balacony during the trial even though he is white.
Francis
Harper Lee: The novel’s author
Heck Tate: Maycomb’s sheriff
Jean Louise Finch/ Scout: The narrator of the story, main character
Jem: Scout’s brother, broke his arm, now disformed
Judge Taylor:
Link Deas:
Mayella Ewell
Miss Caroline:
Miss Maudie Atkinson:
Miss Rachel:
Miss Stephanie Crawford:
Mr. Avery:
Mr. Cunningham:
Mr. Gilmer:
Mr. Underwood:
Mrs. Dubose:
Nathan Radley Reverend Skyes:
Robert E. Ewell:
Simon Finch:
Tim Johnson:
Tom Robinson:
Uncle Jack:
Walter Cunningham :
Setting is Maycomb, Alabama early 1930s
Dill is the nephew of Ms. Rachel who is staying with her for the summer
Scout tells the story
It starts at the end of the story when Jem’s arm is broken
The first half is about childhood innocence and the second half is about racism in the South
Atticus is known for being a very good lawyer
Atticus impresses the kids because he is wise
Atticus is a hypocrite when he tells Scout to act a certain way to uphold the family name which is what Aunt Alexandra always says
Atticus teaches Scout how to get along with people
Atticus serves the town by being the conscience (he does the difficult work for them)
Atticus’ definition of brave is having courage even if you know you can’t win
Calpurnia leads a double life through the way she acts at church and her own home versus how she acts at the Finch house
Aunt Alexandra comes to live with Atticus to help raise Scout
Miss Maudie sees the fire as an opportunity to change her garden
Scout gets the mob under control by talking to Walter’s father
Heck Tate covers for Boo by saying Bob fell on the knife because Boo saved the kids
Jem and Scout are parallels of each other
Atticus is a/an blank when he takes Aunt Alexandra’s side when he tells the children when their ancestory is better than others: A hypocrite
These two character’s both had misshapen arms: Tom and Jem
The unoffical leader of the ranch: slim
Lennie and Candy’s dog are parallels of eachother: both get shot
Which is not a theme of mice and men: Love concurs all
Setting is in Salinas California during the Great Depression and Soledad is the nearest town
George controls Lennie by giving him commands and yelling at him. Lennie controls George by making him feel bad and saying he’s gonna live in a cave
Messages: man strives for independence, man needs friendship, and you don’t have to be nice to be a good friend
Parallel Characters: Lennie and Candy’s Dog both got shot in the back of the head; Crooks and Curley’s wife are both lonely
The characters are all lonely and all want independence on their own farm
Lennie hides in the brush by the stream from the beginning of the novella when he is in trouble
The men defer to Slim
George is angry, Lennie is sad, and Candy saw the loss of the farm coming
The existential in the novella is that you cannot control Lennie’s disorder
Parris is angry with his niece at the beginning because: Her dismissal from the Proctor household is causing rumors
Before her arrest Elizabeth believes that her husband: still desires abigail
All of the following words descirbe Parris except: Violent
Captain John Smith descirbed the indians as: barbaric
This character in the Great Gatsby is uncurably dishonest: Jordan Baker
When Gastby reaches for the green light, he is reaching for all of the following except: Wealth
This character’s voice was full of money: Daisy
The piece of revolutionary literature was delivered: The speech at the Virgina Convention/
Dimmesdale speaks to Hester during the first scaffold scene to: identify Pearl’s father
The villagers thought that Pearl’s thoughts and actions were because: of Satan
Written by John Smith
Tells you how great of a person he is
Written by Johnathan Edwards
Fire and Brimstone testment style
Tells everyone that they are going to hell
Lasted 6 hours
part of the great awakening
By Edward Taylor
Myth: story explaining the actions of gods or heroes
Tone: author’s attitude towards a subject
Mood: The way the reader/audience rechieves the message of a story
Metaphor: comparision using two unalike objects
Essay: short non-fiction writing that explains something
Folktale: stories and other works that arrive out of oral tradition
Genre: type or kind of literature
Narrative: writing that tells a story
Point of view: perspective in which the story is told
Protangist: hero of the story
Setting: time and place
Style: the way a writer typically writes
Theme: the message of the work
Dialogue: Conversation between 2 or more people
Motivation: reason a character behaves in a certain matter
Denoument: anything, any events that occur after the resolution
Resolution: the way the story works out
Aphorism: short witty saying to teach a moral or lesson
Slant rhyme: rhyme with similar words but not identical sounds
Personification: attribute human qualities to someting not human
History: record of occurences of a certain place or people
Archetype: theme or pattern that is similar around the world
Symbol: item with meaning but stands for something else
Conflict: struggle between opposing forces
Dialect: language to a specific region
Imagery: descriptive or detailed language
Flashback: stop current action to go back to tell a piece of information
Foreshadowing: hints or clues as to what may happen
Irony: the difference or contrast between what is reality and expectation
Lyric: a poem that expresses feelings
Quatrain: group of 4 verses, lines, in poetry
Rhyme scheme: regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
Slant rhyme: words look alike but don’t fully rhyme, forced rhyme
Stanza: section of verses in a poem
Motivation: the reason why a character does something
Persuasion: any writing written to change the readers opinion
Stream of concissouness: writing that imiates that natural flow of thought
Resemble ATBs
“Arthur” Boo Radley: a neighbor of the Finches’, only comes out at night, recluse, source of entertainment for the town’s gossip, saves the Finch childeren from Bob Ewell
Atticus: Scout and Jem’s dad, Lawyer, defends Tom Robinson, wise
Aunt Alexandra: Jem and Scout’s aunt, thinks every family has a streak, thinks that the Finches are a superior family
Burris Ewell: Only goes to the first day of school as a family tradition
Calpurnia: Finch family cook, brings the children to church, strict, unsentimental, used to live on the Finches cotton plant
Cecil Jacobs: scared the Finch children on the way to the Halloween play
Charles Baker Harris: Dill’s actual name, friends with the Finch kids, only goes to Maycomb in the summer
Dolphus Raymond: Has mixed children, sits on the “colored” balacony during the trial even though he is white.
Francis
Harper Lee: The novel’s author
Heck Tate: Maycomb’s sheriff
Jean Louise Finch/ Scout: The narrator of the story, main character
Jem: Scout’s brother, broke his arm, now disformed
Judge Taylor:
Link Deas:
Mayella Ewell
Miss Caroline:
Miss Maudie Atkinson:
Miss Rachel:
Miss Stephanie Crawford:
Mr. Avery:
Mr. Cunningham:
Mr. Gilmer:
Mr. Underwood:
Mrs. Dubose:
Nathan Radley Reverend Skyes:
Robert E. Ewell:
Simon Finch:
Tim Johnson:
Tom Robinson:
Uncle Jack:
Walter Cunningham :
Setting is Maycomb, Alabama early 1930s
Dill is the nephew of Ms. Rachel who is staying with her for the summer
Scout tells the story
It starts at the end of the story when Jem’s arm is broken
The first half is about childhood innocence and the second half is about racism in the South
Atticus is known for being a very good lawyer
Atticus impresses the kids because he is wise
Atticus is a hypocrite when he tells Scout to act a certain way to uphold the family name which is what Aunt Alexandra always says
Atticus teaches Scout how to get along with people
Atticus serves the town by being the conscience (he does the difficult work for them)
Atticus’ definition of brave is having courage even if you know you can’t win
Calpurnia leads a double life through the way she acts at church and her own home versus how she acts at the Finch house
Aunt Alexandra comes to live with Atticus to help raise Scout
Miss Maudie sees the fire as an opportunity to change her garden
Scout gets the mob under control by talking to Walter’s father
Heck Tate covers for Boo by saying Bob fell on the knife because Boo saved the kids
Jem and Scout are parallels of each other
Atticus is a/an blank when he takes Aunt Alexandra’s side when he tells the children when their ancestory is better than others: A hypocrite
These two character’s both had misshapen arms: Tom and Jem
The unoffical leader of the ranch: slim
Lennie and Candy’s dog are parallels of eachother: both get shot
Which is not a theme of mice and men: Love concurs all
Setting is in Salinas California during the Great Depression and Soledad is the nearest town
George controls Lennie by giving him commands and yelling at him. Lennie controls George by making him feel bad and saying he’s gonna live in a cave
Messages: man strives for independence, man needs friendship, and you don’t have to be nice to be a good friend
Parallel Characters: Lennie and Candy’s Dog both got shot in the back of the head; Crooks and Curley’s wife are both lonely
The characters are all lonely and all want independence on their own farm
Lennie hides in the brush by the stream from the beginning of the novella when he is in trouble
The men defer to Slim
George is angry, Lennie is sad, and Candy saw the loss of the farm coming
The existential in the novella is that you cannot control Lennie’s disorder
Parris is angry with his niece at the beginning because: Her dismissal from the Proctor household is causing rumors
Before her arrest Elizabeth believes that her husband: still desires abigail
All of the following words descirbe Parris except: Violent
Captain John Smith descirbed the indians as: barbaric
This character in the Great Gatsby is uncurably dishonest: Jordan Baker
When Gastby reaches for the green light, he is reaching for all of the following except: Wealth
This character’s voice was full of money: Daisy
The piece of revolutionary literature was delivered: The speech at the Virgina Convention/
Dimmesdale speaks to Hester during the first scaffold scene to: identify Pearl’s father
The villagers thought that Pearl’s thoughts and actions were because: of Satan
Written by John Smith
Tells you how great of a person he is
Written by Johnathan Edwards
Fire and Brimstone testment style
Tells everyone that they are going to hell
Lasted 6 hours
part of the great awakening
By Edward Taylor